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Drake Powell is still in the G League as the Nets face the Detroit Pistons Saturday night at Little Caesars Arena, and given where Brooklyn is in the season, it might be the cleanest development play they’ve made with him in a while. The Nets sent their rookie first-round pick to Long Island on Feb. 27, a move that came in the middle of an extended shooting slump. Brooklyn recalled fellow rookie Ben Saraf to the big club at the same time and also signed Grant Nelson to a 10-day contract. For Powell, the No. 19 pick in the 2025 draft, it served as a reset. Across his first 30 appearances, the former Tar Heel averaged 6.4 points in 16.9 minutes per game while shooting 46.0% from the field and 32.4% from 3-point range. However, over his final 17 appearances before the assignment, Powell averaged 5.2 points in 19.1 minutes, and his efficiency dipped to 35.4% from the field and 20.9% from deep. Brooklyn’s answer was to send him somewhere he could play through mistakes and re-find his tou...

Ben Stiller blasted the White House for its use of a clip from his satirical action comedy “Tropic Thunder” in a video posted to promote the war in Iran. In addition to 2008’s “Tropic Thunder,” the social media supercut also included a series of movies and television shows, including “Braveheart,” “Breaking Bad,” “Top Gun,” “Superman,” “Transformers,” “Iron Man 2,” and “Star Wars” as well as footage of what appears to be United States military operations. “Justice the American way,” the caption reads. It was shared on Thursday, in wake of the United States’ and Israel’s joint launch of strikes against Iran. Stiller, who starred in “Tropic Thunder” alongside Tom Cruise and Robert Downey Jr., took immediate issue with its inclusion in the montage. He also wrote and directed the flick. “Hey White House, please remove the Tropic Thunder clip ,” he wrote on X. “We never gave you permission and have no interest in being a part of your propaganda machine,” he continued. “War is not a ...

By STELLA MARTANY IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Officials with one of the armed Kurdish Iranian dissident groups based in northern Iraq told The Associated Press that they are not planning an imminent cross-border attack on Iran but would join a ground invasion if the U.S. were to launch one. Related Articles China’s 10-passenger electric aircraft, the Matrix, hints at how big flying taxis can be Hungary detains 7 Ukrainians and seizes $80 million cash shipment. Kyiv calls move ‘taking hostages’ Pakistan and Afghanistan claim killing dozens of the other side’s troops in relentless fighting Pakistani Shiites rally to denounce US-Israeli strikes on Iran as US Embassy issues a security alert Sri Lanka takes custody of an Iranian vessel off its coast after US sank an Iranian warship The comments appeared to be aimed at reassuring Iraqi Kurdish officials, who have said they do not want attacks to be launched against Iran from their territory, fearing that they will be further dragged into...

By COLLEEN SLEVIN and SARAH BRUMFIELD and GEORGE FREY, Associated Press TORREY, Utah (AP) — A man who authorities accuse of killing a southern Utah woman, stealing her vehicle and driving it to a nearby trailhead and killing two women who were hiking together before fleeing in one of their vehicles has been arrested, officials announced Thursday. The series of events happened late Wednesday afternoon. Authorities were alerted to the killings by the husbands of the hikers who went to the trail near Capitol Reef National Park looking for them, said Lt. Cameron Roden of the Utah Highway Patrol. The husbands told authorities one vehicle was missing from the trailhead and they didn’t know who owned the other. Roden said authorities discovered the first woman who was killed after identifying the owner of the vehicle. There is no indication the suspect had any connection to the victims, he said. Investigators were still looking into when the suspect arrived in Utah and what he was doing p...

Another man has admitted to his part in a scheme to bribe a juror in heavyweight boxer Goran Gogic’s international drug trafficking trial — just don’t ask him to identify his mobbed-up accomplice by name. Valmir Krasniqi, 35, the manager at Positano, a Bay Ridge restaurant prosecutors say has ties to organized crime figures, pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in Brooklyn Federal Court Wednesday, and could face up to six years behind bars based on sentencing guidelines. On Wednesday, Krasniqi admitted he gave a photo of one of the Gogic jurors to a worker at the restaurant, and that he set up a meeting in his home. But when Assistant U.S. Attorney Emily Dean asked him to clarify who the meeting was with, his lawyer, Mathew Mari, insisted Krasniqi wouldn’t be naming names. “Judge, the defendant is not a cooperating witness,” Mari said. “He’s not saying that from his lips. He’s just not going to do it.” Krasniqi and two other men were arrested in November, accused of plotting ...

The players are trying to fight a good fight, seeking a massive improvement to their unimaginably one-sided collective bargaining agreement. Public sentiment is largely on their side. But with the WNBA holding firm and time running out, it sounds like the players are folding — and that could mean another disappointing deal that’s projected for six more years. The WNBA presented a new CBA proposal to the WNBPA on Sunday, a source with knowledge of the information confirmed to the Daily News on Monday. The biggest takeaways from the proposal are changes that allow accelerated maximum contract eligibility for star players on rookie contracts and an increase in the Year 1 salary cap to $5.75 million. Based on league projections, the cap will grow to roughly $8.5 million by Year 6, according to the source. The league’s cap for the 2025 season was set at $1.5 million. The Associated Press was first on the details of the league’s latest proposal. “I want to play, and players want to pla...

Chet Hanks says he’s stranded in Medellin , Colombia where he spent the weekend trying to resolve a passport issue. The 35-year-old son of Hollywood royals Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson told his 600,000 Instagram followers after celebrating a friend’s birthday in Puerto Rico, he decided to drop in on a friend in Colombia. According to Hanks – a dual-citizen traveling with his Greek passport — airport officials stopped him from re-entering the U.S. when he tried coming home. “They tell me that if I’m using a foreign passport, I need a green card to get back into America,” he says. “I don’t have a green card because I’m an American citizen.” Hanks said the issue could probably be resolved if he went to the U.S. embassy in Bogota, but he wasn’t interested in making that 250-mile trip. He said he left his U.S. passport at home because it’s about to expire, which he worried could be problematic. Rita Wilson and Chet Hanks attend the 68th GRAMMY Awards Pre-GRAMMY Gala. (Amy Sussman/Getty ...